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Yoga is the music of the soul. So do continue, and the gates of the soul will open.

B.K.S. Iyengar

Yoga is effort. Only practice is important. The rest of knowledge is only theory.
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Effort Practice Yoga
You have to create love and affection for your body, for what it can do for you. Love must be incarnated in the smallest pore of the skin, the smallest cell of the body to make them intelligent so they can collaborate with all the other ones, in the big republic of the body. This love must radiate from you to others.
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Cells Intelligent Skins
Anything physical is always changing, therefore, its reality is not constant, not eternal.
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Constant Eternal Reality
When your body, mind and soul are healthy and harmonious, you will bring health and harmony to the world- not by withdrawing from the world, but by being a healthy, living organ of the body of humanity.
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Healthy Humanity Soul
Do not stop trying just because perfection eludes you.
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Inspiring Life Yoga
Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.
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Contentment Failure Success
We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die….So just standing still isn’t really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.
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Challenges Disturbance Moving
True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.
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Awareness Inspiring Unbroken
Yoga allows you to find a new kind of freedom that you may not have known even existed.
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Kind May Yoga
It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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Art Inspiring Yoga
As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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Mind Moving Wind
If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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Balance Differences Moving
As animals, we walk the earth. As bearers of divine essence, we are among the stars. As human beings, we are caught in the middle, seeking to reconcile the paradox of how to make our way upon earth while striving for something more permanent and more profound.
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Animal Essence Stars
Firmness in the body leads to firmness in the nervous system.
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Body Nervous Nervous System
The light that Yoga sheds on life is something special. It is transformative. It does not just change the way we see things; it transforms the person who sees.
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Light Special Yoga
The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.
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Inspiring Light Shining

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